On Fri, 2025-09-05 at 06:21 -0400, Dennis Clarke wrote: > BusyBox v1.20.2 (Debian 1:1.20.0-7) built-in shell (ash) > Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands. > > /bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off > (initramfs) cat /proc/partitions > major minor #blocks name > > 8 0 39082680 sda > 8 1 1951897 sda1 > 8 2 3903795 sda2 > 8 3 39078112 sda3 > 8 4 33222420 sda4 > 8 16 39082680 sdb > 8 17 2097152 sdb1 > 8 18 4194304 sdb2 > 8 19 39078112 sdb3 > 8 20 32764567 sdb4 > (initramfs) ls bin > busybox false ipconfig minips nfsmount resume > umount > cat fstype kill mkdir nuke run-init > uname > chroot gunzip kmod mkfifo pivot_root sh > cpio gzip ln mknod poweroff sleep > dd halt losetup mount readlink sync > dmesg insmod ls mv reboot true > (initramfs) bin/uname -a > Linux (none) 6.12.3-sparc64-smp #1 SMP Debian 6.12.3-1+sparc64 > (2025-08-28) sparc64 sparc64 > (initramfs)
OK, so the block devices are there and the kernel may just have swapped sda and sdb which can happen any time when you boot a system with multiple disks. I would recommend passing "root=UUID=XXXXX-XXXX.." (put the UUID of the root partition here) in your silo.conf. To retrieve the UUID of your root partition, boot the Wheezy kernel and run: # blkid /dev/sda4, e.g.: root@stadler:~# blkid /dev/vdiska3 /dev/vdiska3: UUID="30e11c2c-be02-48eb-9238-(redacted)" TYPE="swap" PARTUUID="2495e223-9d30-47f0-bdda-(redacted)" root@stadler:~# Use what's in UUID and paste it into silo.conf as: root=UUID=NNNNNNNNN-NNNN-NNNN-NNNN-NNNNNNNNNNNN Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer `. `' Physicist `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
